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The project of Socratic love with Agnes Callard

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

CHAPTER

The Influence of Socrates on Public Philosophy

The point of philosophy is still and hopefully will always be to ask difficult questions, whatever the answers. If you do that long enough and if you do it in public, then there's a decent chance you're going to create a little controversy. Agnes Caller recently garnered a ton of attention due to an article Rachel Aviv wrote about her in The New Yorker. She talks about her philosophical role model, Socrates, and how his influence shapes her approach to public philosophy.

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